Colloquium on Undergraduate Research, Creative Activity, and Community Engagement

Presentation Formats

Let your students know that there are a number of potential formats for presentations: oral/panel presentations, poster sessions, visual arts, theatrical performance, musical performance, and film.

Oral presenters will be organized into panels of 3 to 5 students whose research is connected by a common theme or topic, such as members of a given class or a particular major. Each panel presenter will have about 10 minutes to discuss his/her work. After that, the panel concludes with 15 minutes of "Q & A."

Students presenting their research through posters will be scheduled in one-hour sessions during which they stand at their posters to answer questions.

The presentation formats for visual arts or performance work will be dependent on the type of medium, but all will have an established time slot for presentation. A length not exceeding 20 minutes is strongly encouraged for theatrical and musical performances. The length of films will need to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

For studio arts, senior presentations will take place during a 2 hour and 15 minute time slot. Each presenter will speak for 10 minutes, followed by a question-and-answer session. All other art presentations will be scheduled in a one-hour session.